1993

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1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1993rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 993rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 93rd year of the 20th century, and the 4th year of the 1990s decade.

Events

February

• February 11 – Janet Reno is selected as Attorney General of the United States.
• February 17 – A ferry sinks in Haiti, killing about 1, 200 out of the 1, 500 passengers on board.
• February 24 – Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney resigns amidst political and economic turmoil.
• February 26 – World Trade Center Bombing: In New York City, a van parked below the North Tower of the World Trade Center explodes, killing 6 people and injuring more than 1, 000.
• February 28 – Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents raid the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas, with a warrant to arrest leader David Koresh on federal firearms violations. Four agents and five Davidians die in the raid, and a 51-day standoff begins.

September

• September 6 – The first reference to the Year 2000 problem is made.
• September 13 – Gro Harlem Brundtland is reelected as Prime Minister of Norway.
• September 13 – PLO leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin sign a peace accord.
• September 23 – Sydney, Australia is awarded the 2000 Summer Olympics.
• September 24 – The Cambodian monarchy is restored, with Norodom Sihanouk as king.
• September 30 – An Earthquake centred in Killari, Maharashtra, India kills more than 10, 000 people.

Births

• January 25 - Kylie Padilla, Filipina actress
• January 26 – Cameron Bright, Canadian actor
• February 7 – David Dorfman, American actor
• February 19 - Victoria Justice, American singer and actress
• February 19 - Empress Schuck, Filipina actress
• February 26 – Taylor Dooley, American actress
• March 4 - Bobbi Kristina Brown, American singer and television personality (d. 2015)
• May 14 - Miranda Cosgrove, American actress and singer
• May 18 – Jessica Watson, Australian sailor
• June 26 – Ariana Grande, American singer
• July 26 – Taylor Momsen, American actress
• July 28 – Cher Lloyd, English singer
• August 11 – Alyson Stoner, American actress and dancer
• August 26 – Keke Palmer, American actress and dancer
• September 1 – Ilona Mitrecey, French singer
• October 2 – Tara Lynne Barr, American actress
• December 7 – Iulian Țâmpu, guitarist, musician (Moby Band)
• December 8 – AnnaSophia Robb, American actress

Deaths

January

• January 2 – Vladimir Makogonov, Azerbaijani chess player (b. 1904)
• January 5 – Westley Allan Dodd, American murderer (b. 1961)
• January 6 – Dizzy Gillespie, American musician (b. 1917)
• January 6 – Rudolf Nureyev, Russian dancer (b. 1938)
• January 7 – Toshihiko Izutsu, Japanese philosopher (b. 1914)
• January 8 – Hans Bertram, German Film director (b. 1906)
• January 9 - Paul Hasluck, Governor-General of Australia (b. 1905)
• January 9 - Mario Genta, Italian footballer (b. 1912)
• January 10 - Luther Gulick, American academic (b. 1892)
• January 11 - Tommy Walker, Scottish footballer (b. 1915)
• January 12 - Józef Czapski, Polish artist (b. 1896)
• January 13 - René Pleven, Prime Minister of France (b. 1901)
• January 13 - Camargo Guarneri, Brazilian composer (b. 1907)
• January 13 - Charles Tillon, French politician (b. 1897)
• January 14 - Manfred Lachs, Polish diplomat (b. 1914)
• January 15 – Sammy Cahn, American songwriter (b. 1913)
• January 16 – Jon Pall Sigmarsson, Icelandic strength athlete (b. 1960)
• January 16 - Glenn Corbett, American actor (b. 1930)
• January 17 – Albert Hourani, British historian (b. 1915)
• January 18 – Eleanor Hibbert, English writer (b. 1906)
• January 20 – Audrey Hepburn, Belgian-born actress (b. 1929)
• January 23 – Thomas Dorsey, American musician (b. 1899)
• January 24 – Thurgood Marshall, American jurist (b. 1908)
• January 24 – Ugur Mumcu, Turkish journalist (b. 1942)
• January 25 – Hedi Amara Nouira, Tunisian politician (b. 1911)
• January 26 – Jan Gies, Dutch resistance leader (born 1905)
• January 26 – Jeanne Sauvé, Governor-General of Canada (born 1922)
• January 27 – André the Giant, French professional wrestler and actor (b. 1946)
• January 28 - Helen Sawyer Hogg, Canadian astronomer (b. 1905)

February

• February 6 – Arthur Ashe, American tennis player (b. 1943)
• February 17 – Helen Hayes, American actress (b. 1900)
• February 20 – Ferruccio Lamborghini, Italian automobile manufacturer (b. 1916)
• February 24 – Bobby Moore, English footballer (b. 1941)
• February 25 - Eddie Constantine, American-born actor and singer (b. 1917)
• February 27 – Lillian Gish, American actress (b. 1893)

March

• March 3 – Albert Sabin, American biologist (b. 1906)
• March 20 – Polykarp Kusch, German-born physicist (b. 1911)
• March 27 – Kamal Hassan Ali, Prime Minister of Egypt (b. 1921)
• March 27 - Clifford Jordan, American saxophonist (b. 1931)
• March 31 – Brandon Lee, American actor (b. 1965)

April

• April 5 – Divya Bharti, Indian actress (b. 1974)
• April 17 – Turgut Özal, 8th President of Turkey (b. 1927)
• April 8 – Marian Anderson, American contralto (b. 1897)
• April 19 – David Koresh, American cult leader (b. 1959)
• April 23 – Cesar Chavez, American labor union leader (b. 1927)

May

• May 1 – Pierre Bérégovoy, Prime Minister of France (b. 1925)
• May 1 – Ranasinghe Premadasa, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (born 1924)
• May 2 - André Moynet, French Politician (b. 1921)
• May 8 – Avram Davidson, American writer (b. 1923)
• May 15 - Salah Ahmed Ibrahim, Sudanese poet (b. 1933)
• May 25 - Buddhadasa, Thai Buddhist monk (b. 1906)

June

• June 5 – Conway Twitty, American musician (b. 1933)
• June 7 – Dražen Petrović, Croatian basketball player (b. 1964)
• June 9 – Alexis Smith, Canadian actress (b. 1921)
• June 10 – Les Dawson, English comedian (b. 1934)
• June 16 – Nicanor Zabaleta, Spanish harpist (b. 1907)
• June 19 – William Golding, British writer (b. 1911)
• June 22 – Pat Nixon, First Lady of the United States (b. 1912)
• June 28 – GG Allin, American punk rock singer (b. 1956)
• June 30 – George 'Spanky' McFarland, American actor (b. 1928)

July

• July 2 – Masuji Ibusi, Japanese writer (b. 1898)
• July 3 – Don Drysdale, American baseball player (b. 1936)
• July 19 – Elmar Klos, Czech film director (b. 1910)
• July 31 – King Baudouin I of Belgium (b. 1930)

September

• September 5 - Baek Du-jin, Prime Minister of South Korea (b. 1908)
• September 5 - Claude Renoir, French cinematographer (b. 1914)
• September 12 – Raymond Burr, Canadian actor (b. 1917)
• September 22 – Nina Berberova, Russian writer (b. 1901)
• September 22 – Maurice Abravanel, Greek-born conductor (b. 1903)
• September 27 – Jimmy Doolittle, American general (b. 1896)

October

• October 12 – Leon Ames, American actor (b. 1903)
• October 12 – Tofik Bakhramov, Soviet linesman (b. 1926)
• October 21 – Melchior Ndadaye, President of Burundi (b. 1953)
• October 25 – Vincent Price, American actor (b. 1911)
• October 31 – Federico Fellini, Italian movie director (b. 1920)
• October 31 – River Phoenix, Musician and American actor (b. 1970)

December

• December 2 – Pablo Escobar, Colombian drug lord (shot) (b. 1949)
• December 4 – Frank Zappa, American musician (b. 1940)
• December 6 – Don Ameche, American actor (b. 1908)
• December 7 – Félix Houphouët-Boigny, 1st President of Côte d'Ivoire (b. 1905)
• December 7 – Wolfgang Paul, German physicist (b. 1913)
• December 12 – József Antall, Prime Minister of Hungary (b. 1932)
• December 14 – Myrna Loy, American actress (b. 1905)
• December 16 – Kakuei Tanaka, Japanese Prime Minister (b. 1918)
• December 18 – Sam Wanamaker, American actor (b. 1919)
• December 19 – Owain Owain Welsh novelist and poet (b. 1929)
• December 28 – William L. Shirer, American journalist and historian (b. 1904)
• December 31 – Zviad Gamsakhurdia, President of Georgia (b. 1939)

Nobel Prizes

• Physics – Russell Alan Hulse, Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr.
• Chemistry – Kary Mullis, Michael Smith
• Medicine – Richard J. Roberts, Philip Allen Sharp
• Literature – Toni Morrison
• Peace – Nelson Mandela and Frederik Willem de Klerk
• Economics Robert Fogel, Douglas North

Movies released

• Alive
• Cool Runnings
• Cliffhanger
• Demolition Man
• Free Willy
• The Fugituve
• Groundhog Day
• Joshua Tree
• Jurassic Park
• Mrs. Doubtfire
• The Nightmare Before Christmas
• Philadelphia
• The Piano
• Sailor Moon R: The Movie
• Schindler's List
• Short Cuts
• Sleepless in Seattle
• The Three Musketeers

Hit songs

• "Ain't Nothing But a G Thang" – Snoop Doggy Dogg / Dr Dre
• "Award Tour" – A Tribe Called Quest
• "Bombtrack" – Rage Against the Machine
• "Both Sides Of The Story" – Phil Collins
• "Bullet In The Head" – Rage Against the Machine
• "Creep" – Radiohead
• "Cryin'" – Aerosmith
• "Deeper And Deeper" – Madonna
• "Human Behavior" – Björk
• "Heart Shaped Box" – Nirvana
• "Hey Jealousy" – Gin Blossoms
• "I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)" – Meat Loaf
• "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" – The Proclaimers
• "It Was a Good Day" – Ice Cube
• "Man On The Moon" – R.E.M.
• "On the Sea" – Vertical Horizon
• "Passin' Me By" – The Pharcyde
• "Pets" – Porno for Pyros
• "Plush" – Stone Temple Pilots
• "Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)" Digable Planets
• "Return of the Crazy One" Digital Underground
• "Rooster" – Alice in Chains
• "Sober" – Tool
• "Standing Outside The Fire" – Garth Brooks
• "Two Princes" – The Spin Doctors
• "The World Around Me" – King's X

New books

• Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years – Sue Townsend
• Band of Brothers – Stephen Ambrose
• Barnyard Dance – Sandra Boynton
• Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays – Stephen Hawking
• The Christmas Box – Richard Paul Evans
• The Client – John Grisham
• Complicity – Iain Banks
• The Emigrants – W.G. Sebald
• The Giver – Lois Lowry
• Honour Among Thieves – Jeffrey Archer
• The Hope – Herman Wouk
• In the Eye of the Sun – Ahdaf Soueif
• Lasher – Anne Rice
• Like Water for Chocolate – Laura Esquivel
• Losing Eddie – Deborah Joy Corey
• Men at Arms – Terry Pratchett
• Moving Mars – Greg Bear
• The Night Manager – John le Carré
• Nightmares and Dreamscapes – Stephen King
• Ottoline Morrell: Life on the Grand Scale – Miranda Seymour
• Pleading Guilty – Scott Turow
• Le Rocher de Tanios – Amin Maalouf
• The Scorpio Illusion – Robert Ludlum
• Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree – Tariq Ali
• Slow Waltz at Cedar Bend – Robert James Waller
• Too Big To Fail – Walter Stewart
• Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh
• The Traitor and the Jew: Anti-Semitism and the Delirium of Extremist Right-Wing Nationalism in French Canada from 1929-1939 (Antisémitisme et nationalisme d'extrême-droite dans la province de Québec 1929-1939) – Esther Delisle
• Vanished – Danielle Steel
• Visiting Mrs. Nabokov and Other Excursions – Martin Amis
• The Wicca Spellbook – Gerina Dunwich
• Without Remorse – Tom Clancy

References

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